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Books & Bytes, Issue 33
 The Wikipedia Library Books & Bytes

Issue 33, March – April 2019 
 * # 1Lib1Ref
 * Wikimedia and Libraries User Group update
 * Global branches update
 * Bytes in brief

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Wikidata weekly summary #365
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Discussions
 * New request for comments: Talk pages consultation 2019, phase 2


 * Events
 * Past: Wikimedia hackathon 2019 in Prague, where plenty of people worked on Wikidata and Wikibase related projects (see list below)
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Affinity Group Meeting, 21 May 2019
 * Upcoming: Hacknowledge 2019 hackathon, where you can make a project that uses or improves Wikidata. Moscow, Russia, May 25-26
 * Upcoming: Let's start Wikidata!/ウィキデータを始めよう！, 25 May 2019@Tokyo


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Ordia: A Web application for Wikidata lexemes, by Finn Årup Nielsen
 * Papers on Rust by Magnus Manske
 * Building Knowledge Base through Deep Learning Relation Extraction and Wikidata (Published in AAAI Spring Symposium: Combining Machine Learning with Knowledge Engineering, 2019)


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * [Breaking Change] wbeditentity including empty alias set will remove all aliases
 * Update: change of dates regarding wb_terms redesign. More information in this ticket
 * Support for shape expressions will be enabled on Wikidata on May 28th
 * Reminder: the program submission phase for Wikimania runs until June 1st
 * QAnswer, a question answering system based on Wikidata and other projects, now supports lexicographical data
 * Wikidata-related projects presented during the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 (see all documented projects)
 * Integraality/Template:Property dashboard, to generate property statistics tables for Wikiprojects like the ones made for Sum of all Paintings, hospitals and video games
 * BlockQuery: Prototype of a graphical QueryBuilder to click and drag.
 * Prototype of an Alexa Skill of Voice assisted editing of Wikidata Source Code Screenshot
 * Wikidata Quality Score Display: Gadget that displays on a Wikipedia article the quality level of the related Wikidata item
 * Wikidocumentaries service approaches beta quality and displays content from Wikimedia and other openly licensed sources for each Wikidata item. The latest user interface translations are Indonesian and Russian, and the newest content source plugin for the related images section is the brand new Creative Commons Search catalog.
 * GPS-friendly download of query result & Download of RDF Formats
 * Some documentation about shape expressions was prepared
 * Improvements on Namescript (documentation, descriptions for kanji names)
 * Wiki loves iNaturalist, a tool to look for images in iNaturalist, matching them with Wikidata
 * Mortar: easily upload GLAM collections in Wikidata and Commons
 * Fixing the URL shorteners on the Query Service interface
 * AddQuickClaim.js: pass the property and target item you want to add to an item into the url so you can quickly add a statement
 * ExternalItemSuggester.js: a gadget that provides autocomplete for selected external ID properties
 * Localization for the Saami and Romani languages was improved.
 * All of the copyright-negative pictures and metadata of the digital image repository of the National Archive of Curaçao were scraped. They will possibly be batch-uploaded later on.
 * Wikidata Stream: A nice view of the Wikidata edit stream to use as an eye-catcher for people interested in Wikidata


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: exposure time, supported sports team
 * External identifiers: Flora of Australia ID (new), NARA record group number, Know Your Meme ID, NARA collection identifier, FilmFreeway ID, Dictionary of Anhui Writers ID, V&A artist ID, Guix Variable Name, Who's on First ID, FoodOn ID, SportSport.ba news ID, CNKI article ID, Swiss National Sound Archives ID, Arabic Ontology ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Seating chart properties, Arachne Bauwerk ID, ISO speed, target muscle, Pinakes author ID, University of Amsterdam Album Academicum ID
 * External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, ITF women's tournament ID, Digital Giza ID, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, ATP tennis tournament edition ID, NooSFere edition ID, TV Tropes identifier, Find New Zealand Artists iD, Kobo author ID, Malaysia company number, GLIMS ID, Gamepedia Wiki id, ProofWiki ID, Mediapart tag ID, abART ID, Corporate Number (South Korea), Art Gallery of South Australia work ID, Art Gallery of South Australia creator ID, speedrun.com game ID, JIS standard, Hoopla artist ID, OSZMI ID, Hoopla publisher ID, Repology, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant ID, Elhuyar Dictionary ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#%23%20Most%20common%20properties%20for%20maps%2C%20with%20top%205%20values%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3FpropLabel%20%20%3Fprop_items%20%3Fprop_stmts%20%3Fval%20%3FvalLabel%20%3Fval_count%20%3Fsamp%20%3FsampLabel%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fitem%20%3Fprop%20%3Fstmt%20%3Fval%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20hint%3AQuery%20hint%3Aoptimizer%20%22None%22%20.%0A%20%20%20%20wd%3AQ4006%20%5Ewdt%3AP279%2a%2F%5Ewdt%3AP31%20%3Fitem%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%3Fitem%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ17146139%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fitem%20%3Fp%20%3Fstmt%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3Aclaim%20%3Fp%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fprop%20wikibase%3AstatementProperty%20%3Fps%20.%0A%20%20%20%20MINUS%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fprop%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ19847637%7D%20%20%23%20Wikidata%20property%20representing%20a%20unique%20identifier%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20UNION%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%3Fprop%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ18614948%7D%20%20%23%20Wikidata%20property%20for%20authority%20control%0A%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fstmt%20%3Fps%20%3Fval%20.%0A%20%20%7D%20%23LIMIT%202000%0A%7D%20AS%20%25maps_props_vals%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fitem%29%29%20AS%20%3Fprop_items%29%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fstmt%29%29%20AS%20%3Fprop_stmts%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25maps_props_vals%20%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_stats%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWITH%20%7B%20%20%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fitem%29%29%20AS%20%3Fval_count%29%20%28SAMPLE%28%3Fitem%29%20AS%20%3Fsamp%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25maps_props_vals%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%0A%20%20HAVING%20%28%3Fval_count%20%3E%203%29%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_val_counts%0A%0AWITH%20%7B%0A%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%3Fsamp%20%3Fval_count%20%28COUNT%28DISTINCT%28%3Fval1%29%29%20AS%20%3Fval_rank%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_counts%20.%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20SELECT%20%3Fprop%20%28%3Fval%20AS%20%3Fval1%29%20%28%3Fval_count%20AS%20%3Fval1_count%29%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_counts%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fval1_count%20%3E%3D%20%3Fval_count%29%0A%20%20%7D%20GROUP%20BY%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval%20%3Fval_count%20%3Fsamp%0A%7D%20AS%20%25prop_val_ranks%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_stats%20.%0A%20%20%20%20INCLUDE%20%25prop_val_ranks%20.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28%3Fval_rank%20%3C%206%29%20.%0A%7D%20ORDER%20BY%20DESC%28%3Fprop_items%29%20DESC%28%3Fprop_stmts%29%20%3Fprop%20%3Fval_rank%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%0A%20 Most common properties for maps, with their top 5 values] (source)
 * Timeline of pioneers of photography, via Wikidata and DBpedia (source)
 * Maps of synagogues in Czech Republic (source)
 * Lexemes that lack Senses but have at least one usage example (source)


 * Development
 * Added  of entities to JSON dumps – thanks Pintoch!
 * Working to scale the Wikidata Concepts Monitor system (T203366)
 * Imrpove logging in on mobile (T215913)
 * More work on mobile termbox
 * Several developers from the Wikidata team attended to the hackathon, discussed with the community, gathered feedback, hacked on things together with volunteers :)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Thank you ...
... for improving article quality in May! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:10, 21 May 2019 (UTC)

June events with WIR
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Wikidata weekly summary #366
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata Labs XV in Brazil, with an introduction to lexicographical data (slides)
 * Past: Workshop for experienced editors of nl.wiktionary to explore the possibilities of lexicographical data.


 * Press, articles, blog posts
 * Using contemporary constraints to ensure data consistency. David Abián, Jorge Bernad, Raquel Trillo LadoPublished in SAC 2019. DOI:10.1145/3297280.3297509 (Paywalled)
 * Published in WWW 2019
 * Fast Interval Joins for Temporal SPARQL Queries. Melisachew Wudage Chekol, Giuseppe Pirrò, Heiner Stuckenschmidt. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3314997
 * QAnswer: A Question Answering prototype bridging the gap between a considerable part of the LOD cloud and end-users. Ronan Cummins, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308558.3314124
 * Implicit Bias in Crowdsourced Knowledge Graphs. Gianluca Demartini. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3317307
 * Learning to Map Wikidata Entities To Predefined Topics. Preeti Bhargava, et al. DOI:10.1145/3308560.3316749
 * Citation.js: Wikidata Update, by Lars Willighagen
 * Wikidata: Open Linked Data for Library Publishing, by Mairelys Lemus-Rojas et al.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * The US Library of Congress are integrating Wikidata QIDs into their authority files (blog post)


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Buddhist Author Authority Database ID, HAL structure ID, Mod DB video game ID, Finnish Trade Register ID, IMTL.org ID, Danskefilmstemmer.dk person ID, OBO Gazetteer ID, (speedy delete me), LGBTFansDB character ID, ProofWiki ID, ROR ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: title qualifiers, goodwill ambassador of, UPA transcription, hospital beds, Courage ID, bibliography url
 * External identifiers: Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The DRAGON Archive id, racing-reference track ID, racing-reference race ID, Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic (DPRR) ID, MSX Games World ID, Coco Game List ID, Dictionary of Irish Biography ID, Ask.fm ID, National Film Board of Canada director identifier


 * Query examples:
 * European countries that have a street named after them in Rennes
 * Map of meteor impact craters (source)
 * Bubble chart of all instances of color which have an sRGB color hex triplet (source)
 * Number of riots per country (source)
 * European country having the most female politicians (source)


 * Development
 * Deploy the EntitySchema extension on test.wikidata.org and beta.wikidata.org
 * Remove the remaining beta feature config for constraint-suggestions (T220609)
 * Introduce baserevid for conflict checking in Lexeme (T217245)
 * Fix a bug making impossible to get Lexeme Forms and Senses via the API (T223995)
 * Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (T221774)
 * Allow accessing Wikibase entities from multiple Wikibase databases (T214557)
 * More work to get termbox ready for deployment
 * Add a login warning on mobile termbox editing (T221831)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:14, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Tech News: 2019-22
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-tools.svg Big changes to the replica database will happen on 3 June. Some tools on Cloud Services will stop working if the maintainers do not update them to use the new schema. This probably affects tools that query for revisions or log entries made by a user.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 29 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  15:33, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

List of recipients of the Order of Industrial Heroism
Hi Andy, I wondered if you had any more information related to the list you have created at List of recipients of the Order of Industrial Heroism? It has produced over 80 links to disambig pages & there isn't really enough info to try to sort out the correct links.&mdash; Rod talk 08:29, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

Very little; I have:


 * notes (not to hand, so I can't tell you the name) on one recipient, whose biography I intend to write later
 * a reminder to myself to find a copy (second hand, or inter-library loan) of Fevyer, Wilson and Cribb, the source cited in the artice about the award.
 * the PDF document I cited in the list article
 * resigned disappointment that someone has already suggested that people who were given this significant award might not be notable

I suspect that, in most cases, we need a new, red link rather than a disambiguation link; hence my request for assistance.

Interestingly, the subjects are largely working class people (e.g. coal miners dockers, train drivers), whose under-representation as a group is another facet of our systemic bias. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:32, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I have moved this article to Draft:List of recipients of the Order of Industrial Heroism, as it clearly more incorrect than correct. In addition to the large number of disambiguation links, many of the links to individual articles are to subjects that are highly unlikely to be the intended target of the link. bd2412  T 20:15, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I see that you have moved this list back to mainspace. Since it is, in its current state, complete garbage, I have nominated it for deletion at Articles for deletion/List of recipients of the Order of Industrial Heroism. bd2412  T 20:42, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
 * How petty. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:23, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry you feel that way, but the list really is below the standards of an encyclopedia. The move to draft was an attempt to provide an opportunity to salvage it, but apparently it can't be made any better. bd2412  T 13:19, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Don't apolgies for what you perceive to be my feelings. Your claim that the list "can't be made any better" is as false as your claim that none of the links were valid; and your claim that "no information at all can be found" about one of its members. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:35, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I apologize for my lax use of words. I meant that no information supporting an encyclopedia article on the subject can be found. The list has indeed been made better, as there are now five legitimate blue links rather than four. However, the list can't be made encyclopedic by this step, nor by the addition of unreliable sources such as a town "guestbook" that apparently anyone can edit, an apparently self-published family genealogy, or commercial catalogs for the auction of medals. bd2412  T 15:54, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * In that case; then, as now, you were wrong. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:02, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Based on the improvements made to the article, yes, I was wrong. I apologize for my lack of good faith in the potential of this subject. bd2412  T 18:41, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:45, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2019
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The Signpost: 31 May 2019
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Wikidata weekly summary #367
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 
 * Events
 * Past: Wikidata workshop, May 27th at UIN Maliki, Malang, Indonesia (in collaboration with Faculty of Computer Science, UI) - Slideset link - Press release
 * Past: OSM x Wikidata workshop, June 3rd, Taipei, Taiwan
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Days 2019, June 7-8th in Lisbon, Portugal.
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Lab XVI, June 13th in São Paulo, Brazil
 * Upcoming: Wikidata Edit-a-thon during Atla 2019, June 13th, Vancouver, Canada


 * Press, articles, blog posts


 * Blogpost by RightStatements.org - a system of standardised interoperable rights and reuse information for GLAMs - describing the role and importance of the property P6426.
 * Welcome Japan Search to the web of Linked Open Data by Martin Poulter, Bodleian Digital Library


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Shape expressions are now live on Wikidata
 * At WikiWoordenboek (Dutch wiktionary) a project titled Widawiwo has begun to explore how the maximal mutual benefit of Wikidata and WikiWoordenboek can be achieved.
 * Hauki is a new tool by d:User:Vesihiisi to browse lexicographical data.
 * Wikidata trainings & online courses for librarians by WikiEdu


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: ISO speed, f-number, WMI Code, minimum wage, UPA transcription
 * External identifiers: speedrun.com game ID, Harper's author ID, Pakistan Railways station code, National Library of Wales Catalogue ID, Arachne building ID, Messes.info Catholic parish ID, The Atlantic author ID, Find NZ Artists ID, Unified Social Credit Identifier, OSZMI ID, MSX Games World ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: motif represents, Shape Expression for class, Album Academicum-identificatiecode, gender educated, ABA League ID, start grade, end grade, digilibLT author ID, IntraText author ID, in defining formula, PHI Latin Texts author ID, associated shape, comparison image, emergency services, Married by
 * External identifiers: Rugby League Project ID (general), Hungarian National Namespace, Pakistan EMIS code(s), CCDC Number, swMATH work ID, Czech parliament ID, Tainacan MAI ID, Biographical Dictionary Of Iowa ID, Pro Football Hall of Fame ID (new), euroleague.net coach ID, eurobasket.com coach ID, Who's Who of American Comic Books, PCE Daisakusen ID, Musixmatch artist ID, eBiodiversity ID


 * Query examples:
 * Gay parades in Italy in 2019
 * Map of communes of the French area "Ille-et-Vilaine" which share borders (source)
 * Connections between the subject and printing location of Welsh landscape prints (source)
 * Dunes in Wikidata (source)
 * Co-author network of Journal of Cheminformatics authors (source)
 * Map of archives in the world (source)
 * Newest database reports: frequent first names in Spain


 * Development
 * Specify license of mediawiki/Wikibase/WikibaseLexeme ontology (T216842)
 * Enable bugfix on beta for wbeditentity setting aliases to empty array (T223300)
 * Use correct validator in alias changeop and provide error messages if alias is too short (T223311)
 * More work on the use of special pages Special:SetAliases and Special:SetLabelDescriptionAliases with aliases containing | character (T223270)
 * Add Wikidata query service lag to Wikidata maxlag (T221774)
 * Fix BadMethodCallException wbgetentities when getting Lexeme subentities (forms, senses) (T223995)
 * Scale the machine learning components of the WDCM system w. {text2vec} WarpLDA implementation (T203366)
 * Inspect strange behavior of the WD_percentUsageDashboard (T217994)
 * WDCM dashboards maintenance: eliminating the need to use the wdcm.maintable in Hive, WDCM Geo is now independent of it (with its update engine running Spark instead) and re-designed to match the WDCM standards (T217994, T214586, T217997)
 * Further preparations for the Wikidata Languages Landscape project (T221965)
 * More progress in order to get the mobile service deployed
 * Adding an IP edit warning popup for mobile termbox (T221831)
 * Allowing users to ignore this popup permanently (T221833)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; Lea Lacroix (WMDE) 15:06, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Suggested and open tasks!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Tech News: 2019-23
<section begin="technews-2019-W23"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes
 * You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia languages. This works in the desktop version.
 * There is now a field called  on Commons. This is a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still in development.
 * Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new schema.

Problems
 * You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30 minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC). This is to fix a hardware problem.

Changes later this week
 * Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs, clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor. It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited.
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 May. It will be on all wikis from 6 May (calendar).

Meetings
 * Octicons-sync.svg Octicons-tools.svg You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 5 May at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2019-W23"/> 15:24, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

GLAM help request: Pritzker Military Museum & Library
Can you help update the Pritzker Military Museum & Library's article? It has a lot of items that need updating, especially the new CEO. Relevant articles include:


 * [Full press release: https://www.prweb.com/releases/pritzker_military_museum_library_brings_internationally_recognized_scholar_to_chicago/prweb16000422.htm ]
 * [Here’s the link to the Crain's article on Dr. Havers: https://www.chicagobusiness.com/arts-entertainment/meet-new-head-pritzker-military-museum ]
 * [2017 literature award: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/pritzker-military-museum--library-announces-2017-literature-award-recipient-300476742.html]
 * [2018 literature award: https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/dennis-showalter-wins-pritzker-literature-award#.XO70t4hKiUk]
 * [2018 literature award: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/6/26/18371506/pritzker-military-museum-amp-library-awards-scholar-100-000-prize]
 * [2018 literature award: http://www.startribune.com/minnesotan-wins-100k-literature-prize-for-military-writing/486607891/ ]
 * [Books published by PMML: Zero to Hero https://www.dailyherald.com/news/20190325/medal-of-honor-recipient-reflects-on-what-march-25-holiday-means-to-him]
 * [Books published by PMML: Zero to Hero https://www.c-span.org/video/?458750-1/zero-hero]
 * [Books published by PMML: Zero to Hero https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/daily-southtown/ct-sta-zero-to-hero-medal-of-honor-st-0315-story.html]
 * [Books published by PMML: Lest We Forget https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-robbins-world-war-one-posters-20181111-htmlstory.html]
 * [Books published by PMML: Lest We Forget https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/2018/03/15/military-times-spring-reading-guide-grunts-generals-russians-and-keyboard-warriors-top-our-nonfiction-list/]

Thanks for your help! TeriEmbrey (talk) 21:18, 29 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I've added the publications; others have beaten me to the rest. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:10, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

AA color contrast ratio
In 2015, you added "ensure AAA color contrast ratio" to the musical genre infobox template. Can you change that to AA instead of AAA? The AA level of conformance is a ratio of 4.5:1 which "should" be followed by Wikipedia, whereas the AAA level is 7:1 and is optional. People with 20/80 vision are the ones addressed by the AAA level, but such people are usually using a form of vision correction when they are perusing Wikipedia, which is why the 7:1 ratio is optional. Binksternet (talk) 14:26, 1 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Why would we reduce the accessibility of Wikipedia? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Adding TfD notice
The page Template:Infobox_Palestine_municipality is edit-protected, could you add

to it? 77.183.60.95 (talk) 21:30, 6 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Done. Please consider creating an account. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:43, 6 June 2019 (UTC)

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